Have you ever heard of prayer walking? If you have, this might be old hat. If not, I’d love to chat!
I had the privilege of learning alongside a fellow student in college in matters of prayer. We had used Praying God’s Word in our personal lives. We both loved the concept of praying His Words back to Him. So we decided to use it in prayer walks as well.
Prayer walking was all so new to me when I first heard of it. The best description is that it’s praying “on site with insight.”
So we started on our college campus. What would it look like to pray on site with insight there?
For us, it meant many things. As we would walk by the school of business, we would pray for professors we’d had there. For students to know Him and use their future professions for His glory and others’ good.
When we passed a group of international students, we would ask they would know Jesus in an intimate way. And if they were only studying here and would return to their home country, that they would be influential for the Kingdom in their families and relationships.
See what I mean? We were on the campus site and could therefore pray for what was immediately in front of us. And if there was nothing in particular, we would pray a verse and ask for the Truth of it to be true in the people of our university.
What does that sound like to you? A little crazy? The nice thing is, it just looked like she and I were chatting.
Eyes were open as we walked. No laying on of hands to complete strangers. Just the two of us walking and talking. To Jesus.
Have you ever prayer walked before? I’d love to hear where and any stories.
If this is kinda new, what do you think? Would you ever try it?